Talk:Fungiculture

Needs list of commonly cultivated mushrooms

It would be nice to have a comprehensive list of commonly "cultivated" mushrooms here. MD (talk) 20:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Worldwide perspective

The "Production regions in the United States" section skews the arcticle a bit, I guess a global perspective is needed. Maybe something like a "Production regions in different countries" section, with sub-sections for notable countries. MMad (talk) 22:49, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I'll go ahead and add the Template:Globalize/USA tag to the article. There are several sections that, while informative and well written, clearly have a US slant. MMad (talk) 23:12, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Missing History

One thing that is missing from this article is the history of fungiculture. Until fairly recently, only a few species could be cultivated, and cultivation was probably more advanced in East Asia than elsewhere. Over the past fifty years, quite a few new species have been under cultivation. It seems to me that a discussion of these developments is desirable.Bill (talk) 19:41, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree that this is a much needed addition to the articleMccue3g (talk) 22:13, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be anyone paying attention to this page/edit suggestion

This page doesn't seem to be supervised by anyone. Posters above have made pertinent statements involving improvements that could be made to the page. Who addresses these suggestions? I'm wondering because I have a few suggestions. Lemme start with the section on log cultivation. A newly developing technique for outdoor log cultivation is to use shorter sections of log--12 inches or so-- which are then place in nursery pots filled 3/4 to the top with sand. These pots are ten placed outdoor in uncontrolled environment. Moisture is contained with the log and transferred to the log via the mechanism of the sand which holds a certain amount of water each time it rains. I know that both reishi and shitake are cultivated this way.Mccue3g (talk) 22:12, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

made minor edit

Mushrooms are not grown on hay. They are grown on straw. Hay is a poor substrate. Minor edit, but thought I should make note.Mccue3g (talk) 15:04, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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Planning improvement

Just introducing myself and announcing my intent. I plan to make several changes, since I am interested and work in the area. I'll attempt to address the many citation that not matching the content (some looks like spam ad). I will also improve the source types from a primary to secondary, because so many exist I know of. Also an important confusion is due to not explaining from the start that different mushrooms are grown on different substrate: compost lovers vs wood/straw lovers. Also most of the section do not even mention which species group it is explaining the growing technique. Finally I found self defeating the order of the sections, at many moments the reader with no prior knowledge cannot be expected to understand before reading the next sections. I will do my best to improve it in order to also represent the importance of each section (e.g. outdoor log is minor technique in the mushroom growing world, and the major technique has not been sufficiently explained). The suggestions above of a better world production section and a new history section are exciting, I'll attempt to address that as well. And if I am still alive, well, a section on mushroom growth in nature would help diffuse all the mystery of what are we trying to mimic by all these techniques. And after that much important content will still be missing, e.g. culture lab work and spawn production, myco-materials, truffle and other symbiotic mushroom cultivation, research on mushroom cultivation, economic model spectrum (from large scale hyper-segmented to small scale hyper-integrated), type of equipment. I hope you'll be excited as I am and join the effort Also as a WP beginner, I ask for some indulgence and possibles advises from more advanced WP contributors, whenever you can.

Can humans obtain CALORIES from fungi?

Humans seem to be unable to extract calories from leaves of grasses, despite the fact that dozens of other mammals can do so. I believe there ARE vertebrates that can get calories from mushrooms. Are we one of them? (Not all animals (or non-animal life-forms) who eat mushrooms do so to get CALORIES. They may do so to get nutrients (vitamins, minerals) essential for life, growth, and/or reproduction. Actually, they do it because their genes program them to do it. The RESULT might be that the behavior is either neutral to or beneficial to their life/parenthood outcomes. A "neutral" outcome is unlikely, since if the behavior contributes nothing the organism would evolve to avoid spending effort on it. I guess you could say that if the organism gets exactly as many calories out of a fungus as it expends on digesting that fungus, it's neutral. But the exact matching of "calories obtained" to "calories expended" is a highly unlikely random match.) So, can humans get calories by eating mushrooms?2600:1700:6759:B000:E894:BFCC:705D:880 (talk) 19:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson